I find it quite odd that this is how a horse sees us in Gulliver's travels. It is weird to think that we, or "Yahoos", are depicted as ugly brutes that are uncivilized. However, in real life, we have a mindset to think that horses are inferior to us and we are the more civilized beings in society. I believe this part in the book is making us human beings picture how it would be like if we were not on the top of the food chain.
I agree that the horses are meant to portray a perfect society that is not corrupted by petty differences that are prevalent in England. Houyhnhnms literally means the perfection of nature in their language.
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